Spalding Corner, California

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1995

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1886 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000
• 1892 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1892 USGS Modoc Lava-Bed quadrangle1:250000
• 1932 USGS Bartle quadrangle1:96000
• 1939 USGS Bartle quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Pondosa quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS McArthur quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS East of Pondosa quadrangle1:24000
• 1995 USGS East of Pondosa quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Spalding Corner between 1992 and 2018, burning about 97 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Dana
• Cayton
• Gomez
• Glenburn
• Harlow Place
• Hat Creek

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1656323. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.